Description: Further DetailsTitle: In Mad Love and WarCondition: NewEAN: 9780819511829ISBN: 9780819511829Publisher: Wesleyan University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/21/1990Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Joy HarjoLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 081951182XDescription: Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they are one with the deer and the fox, the hawk and the eagle, the sun, moon, and wind, and the seasons - "spring/ was lean and hungry with he hope of children and corn." There are enemies here, also lovers; there are ghost dancers, ancestors old and new, who rise again "to walk in shoes of fire."Indeed, fire and its aftermath is a constant image in the burning book. Skies are"incendiary"; the "smoke of dawn" turns enemies into ashes: "I am fire eaten by wind." "Your fire scorched/ my lips." "I am lighting the fire that crawls from my spine/ to the gods with a coal from my sister's flame."But the spirit of this book is not consumed. It is not limited by mad love or war, and"there is something larger than the memory/ of a dispossessed people." That something larger is, for example, revolution, freedom, birth.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 1990 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: In Mad Love and War
Title: In Mad Love and War
EAN: 9780819511829
ISBN: 9780819511829
Release Date: 05/21/1990
Release Year: 1990
ISBN-10: 081951182X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: In Mad Love and War
Number of Pages: 79 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Year: 1990
Topic: General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Item Height: 0.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry, Social Science
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Joy Harjo
Book Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
